ideally, its nice to read at but in real-life its much more complicated to pull it off and so un-american (or atleast, untexan). 

amd is a good company, unfortunately its ran purely by geeksters (the rest could just be retards, pun intended). in technology terms, they know when the right time to pull the shots but often, marketing wins the day. it isn't bad if they put a dash of equally good marketeers just like intel's, keep the sales vs engineering quarrel alive and not with some geeker wannabecome marketurd who keeps on waiting for a vacant train that will never come.

Last time I checked, AMD owned ATi. AMD/ATi designs GPUs, chipsets, chips for mobile devices, etc that it manufactures them elsewhere (TSMC is it?). Also, not that long ago, AMD used Chartered to manufacture some of its processors... or maybe this contract is still on? So, I don't really see why AMD's fabs will sit idle. It would make much more sense if the ATI team started design implementations for AMD fabrication tech.

I remember someone talking about the way AMD designs and executes... It may be that you were the writer. Anyway the article was talking about a very strong interdependency between the design teams behind the desks and the engineers in the fabs. Something like the later guys adjusting the designs churned out by the former guys. If that story is true and I got it (understood it) right, than this story is plain SF: one can't live without the other.

"I feel exactly like some rube who shelled out $5.6 billion for ATI. I wish the r'Inq had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Here. The last pages are for the Fellowship of the r'Inq. I think it's some sort of Welshestershire rhuine."
If you lo it elflike samwise...
"Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima!"
of some other such dervish.

It's only a small detail, but it's Luther Forest not Luther Park. And the development company is calling it Luther Forest Technology Campus. A lot has been done to develop the site, but so far lots of money has been spent and there is nothing to show for it.

... even though they try their best to screw things up. AMD should be run by serious businessmen, not geeks with aspirations.

Instead of screwing up already existing deals - and taking into account the US economy is in such a bad shape, wouldn't it make more sense for them to find some more financing from the outside (not the Twilight Zone)?

No one talks about that Dubai investment fund that took a stake in AMD...

AMD won't even give INQUIRER the time of day much less an interview.
Your talk about selling the Company and the complexity of a sale is way beyond a journalist ability to understand and comment as you have.
I wonder what your financial interest is in the sale. Why don't you stop kicking good competition when there down. Creating mega Company's like Intel and the old AT&T isn't good for competition. We need these all these Company's for completion. Help rather than pull them down.

Is this just a nice fiction story or does it have any new FUD behind it?

I thought YESTERDAY was the 1st of April ... or is it that jokes can continue the whole week?

That's a loooong, boring story ... and I think a purely personal opinion. Well I guess I'd better start checking other sites for news.

'Cause brothers Grimm are dead ... or are they?

I'm curious to understand the major differences between process IP around SOI vs process IP around bulk Si... you do realize the process steps after you buy the substrate are rather similar?I think you are making a bigger deal out of this then is reality - there are certainly integration challenges, but come on...

Also any FTC implications? Last I checked AMD is still a US company and exporting 45nm tech to Abu may raise some flags? (even assuming IBM OK's it?). The key about the Abu investments in many of the US companies is they are less than 10% and are passive. I suspect if they have even a minority holding interest he US govt will look at it carefully.

At least now we know what Asset lite is/was - a completely made up farce for AMD to buy some time and figure out what to do. "We can't tell you" was code for we have no clus ad are trying to figure something out. And the press bought in, hook line and sinker. I don't see AMD getting more than 40cents on the (already cheap) dollar.

AMD is not a privately held company, it's owned by its stock holders. So if they spin off the Fabs, they would have to give the current stock holders so many shares of Fab for each share of AMD that they hold.

It would then be up to the Fab shareholders to decide as to whether or not they wish to sell their shares in the Fab.

Of course this is up to the share holders as to whether or not they even wish to spin off the fabs. Or of course the share holders could also vote on out right selling the fabs, but a spin off seems more likely, if anything was to happen.

What happened to the good old days when we would be talking about mergers rather than spin offs. Mergers are always more fun.

Its Brick & Mortar Job, So Worth Plenty. However, Here's Point, IS House Worth More Than Charlie, Marty?

Processors Take 20 years to Prepare, most of that Time is DOD Testing. Entire TEAM of Peoples, engineers, is assembled from School preperations to Working design to Final Implementation, Its NOT just walk in & Order Latest Stuff, from?. Even once Public, Each Design Team, FAB, has 2 years finalizing Design & 2 years Final field Tests of Large arrays of Corporate nature. Then Retail Public gets Few Last Years & Last Modifications to Work in Such Variable Enviorment.What Worked Gets Sold.

Actual FAB is Starting Point of Manufacture, Yet is years out of organiztion & Core Design Phase. Fab is Walls in Location where TEAM Ended up. It works until Teams Technology is too old. Then its Warehouse of various parts, including Knock offs'.

There is NO Further Ability to Manufacturer anything, merely wholesale distribution channel point for next FABS To Take Advantage Of.

Selling FAB is NOT Selling Company in any WAY. Plenty of FABS are Quietly putting their package together, it just takes LONG Time.
AMD Turned Barton Springs into Housing Project, Next Fab may do anything with their investments & property. Yet, its isn't AMD, its Local TEAM Finalizing its Investment with AMD. Abujavie cann't start FAB anywhere except in Sultoms Ultie Undies in adugibber Land.Just Personal Communications Gap would Be Way Too Great.

So, Put Charles in Car for Bed & BTW Charles. Use Garden House when in Town, All Empty Properties Are Mein.
Thomas Drashek

Man you and your stories lolol...
You are such a crazy guy.